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Those are great numbers........

Too bad they can't be even close to used to predict the revenue of my SAS apps (so far....). Then we have the train of weekly "Sorry users, we are shutting down" posts here on HN (unlikely to happen if they are pulling in ~200K per employee no?).

There is a lot of variation. I view this method with more than a little skepticism.



Maybe when companies are successful they hire employees till the money's mostly gone. So it'd kinda work for profitable companies but not most startups.


Jason mentions in his article that this applies after the first few million of ARR.




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